The winning bands in Red Bull Bedroom Jam 2010 are currently performing live across the UK at some of the top festivals of the summer. We interrupted No Mean City mid-tour to find out more about them.
From Derry in Northern Ireland comes No Mean City. Having only been a band for about a year (although most have them have ‘done time’ in various outfits in the past) the band literally became NMC when ex-model Jilly joined as singer.
The foursome released their debut EP in March and have been picking up rave notices left, right and centre, and look set to explode, and with Jilly they have a frontwoman in the classic mould. Amazing.
Hello there! Introduce yourselves to the redbull.co.uk viewers
Hey! We are Jilly (lead vocals), Paul (guitar), Joe (bass) and Alfie (drums) and we are No Mean City!! from Derry, Northern Ireland.
What inspired you to take part in Red Bull Bedroom Jam?
We’d been gigging about Northern Ireland loads and a friend of mine hit me up on facebook and says he thought we’d clean up on this comp, so we thought we’d enter our video. To be honest when we did and realised what was involved we weren’t really sure if we’d do that well, but then the nmc massive were sooo receptive and behind us! So I guess you could say it’s been their support that inspired us to stay in the game!
How’s it been going on the festival circuit?
The whole experience has been surreal for us. To be in the same line ups as the likes of Muse and Rage Against The Machine is ridiculous! It’s also our mainland debut! We’d never played Great Britain before now and so hardly anyone has heard of us here. It’s been ALL GOOD feedback!
Are there any other bands in the Jam you like?
Naw! wise up! *laughs* I think Never Means Maybe and Hearts Under Fire stand out for us... hell... we love them all though! What a great bunch o' folk!
What’s next?
The world!
Check out No Mean City before they take over the planet at http://www.myspace.com/nomeancityband and for more noise-based mayhem, head over to Red Bull Bedroom Jam.
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